Show I nr Give r To fo Give r For Inter Commission sion Decides to GI Grant ant Privilege to Salt Lake Utah Valley Road SEVENTY MILES OF TRACK Proposed Line Will Extend F From Payson Entering City on South First West to operate their lIn lines 9 F IT along certain streets of or Salt Sail Lake Lako will be bo granted promoters of or the Salt Lake and Utah Valley Railroad corn com pl n pany This was decided at a special meeting of oC the tile city commissioners yesterday yes yes- cs forenoon hold closed t ll doors In the tIme office of ot the mayor The TIme consent to the franchise was as by bya a vote of ot three to two vo the tho ma mayor or and commissioners of oC streets and public Improvements and parks and public property voting in favor of oC and the commissioners of oC water and public affairs af a- a fairs against the franchise The Time proposed interurban railway will extend from Salt Lake to Payson Pason a dl distance dis dis- tance of seventy miles The TIme lines s will come Into Salt Lake along ong South First l West to North orth Temple thence ea east t to West Temple south to Fo Fourth rth South and west to First West terming forming a loop Ordinary freight ma may not proceed north Continued d on n Page Pago 3 Col Column G 5 PJ I TO GIVE FRANCHISE FOR INTERURBAN Commission Decides to Grant Privilege to Salt Lake Utah Valley Road I I Continued d from Page Pape One of oC Third South and trains carrying carrying- coal will bo be permitted to pass anywhere over the lines In the city between the thu hours of or 10 p. p m m. and 6 a. a m m. m The Interurban railway estimated to cost between two and three million dollars dollars dol del lars will be built by A. A J. J Orem Co of Boston Salt Luke Lake and und Douglas Nov Nev to be he assisted b by George C. C Whitmore banker o of Nephi and other prominent residents of ot Utah count county together with W. W V Armstrong Armstrong- president of the National National National Na Na- Copper bank Simon president of or the line an and W. W R n. Wallace Vallace all o of Salt Lal Lake e county count and David Eccles and others of oC Weber Co county II fl t y It is la tho the intention of or the promoters to 10 build tho tilo Interurban railway as re regards regards re- re gards equipment and general Jeneral construe construe- tion lon along linos of ot the Salt I Lake ake O Ogden railway It was announced ed last lJ by Mr Bamberger cl that active work on the new Interurban railway will Ill be commenced as soon as aR permanent perma pernia- neat nent locations can bo made Inar mary nary lines alread already have been drawn draw which u it Is expected will be bi followed closel closely l In establishing the permanent I locations oca t Ions I The railway will pierce th the most pro- pro I sections of or Utah valley and anti will facilitate travel to Salt Lake for or ro residents resi rosi- l. l ia dents of Spanish Fork ork Payson Pason Spring Spring- Ille Provo Pro Pleasant Grove GlOye American Fork Lehl Ihl and minor settlements of Utah Ufah county It will tap the most Important im important Im- Im area of tho Strawberry project and promoters declare the railway will willay pa pay ay at the vcr very beginning It was sas announced last night that a n liberal rate policy along lin s of or Dam Dam- herger an and s lines will be closely observed c by bJ tho the proposed urban Intel railway In the sale of or aKe uc at one and ind three-fourths three cents pcr per mile Mr Bamberger er predicted last that the building of tho the interurban railway rail rull- way wa- waIn In five years ear will lead to 10 tho the construction construction con con- of an Interurban railway rail rali- wn way vav linking the Utah lines jules with Boise passing through the most productive section of or I Idaho aho The financiers who met with the city c commissioners yesterday were Wel Simon amber er V V. R. R Wallace W W. wV W W. Armstrong Arm rm strong George C. C Whitmore Abel ALel John Juhn Evans Evana H. H C. C Joy and A. A J J. J Orem |